Amazon Fires Ignite a Global Movement to Protect the Planet

Leila Salazar-Lopez is a mother; proud Chicana-Latina woman; and passionate defender of Mother Earth, the Amazon, indigenous rights and climate justice. Since 2015, she has served as the Executive Director of Amazon Watch, leading the organization in its work to protect and defend the bio-cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest by advancing indigenous peoples' rights, territories, and solutions, including solar for energy, communications and transport in the Amazon. For 20+ years Leila has worked to defend the world's rainforests, human rights, and the climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns at Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, Global Exchange, and Green Corps. She is currently a Greenpeace Voting Member and a Global Fund for Women Advisor for Latin America. She was recently acknowledged in Make it Better Media’s "17 Bay Area Environmentalists Making a Difference."